Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. — Novak Djokovic
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. — Richard Attias
The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing. — Chuck Noll
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. — Gregg Easterbrook
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide. — Bob Cousy
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. — Gene Tunney
Short Sports In General Quotes
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
Energy is everything, in life, in football and in sports. — Mikel Arteta
Sports In General Image Quotes
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Playing Sports Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
When you see a good move, look for a better one. — Emanuel Lasker
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city. — Oscar Wilde
Favorite Sports Quotes
My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine. — Caroline Rhea
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. — Ross Perot
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement. — Matt Biondi
Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport. — Sharni Vinson
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. — Pete Rose
I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better. — Xi Jinping
Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David. — Ralph Jordan
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail. — Mark Spitz
Sports Entertainment Quotes
People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well. — Jensen Huang
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money. — John W. Henry
I believe almost any sports fan would purchase a club, if they had the means. — John W. Henry
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
I think the industry brings out probably the best individuals in the sport that can encourage and motivate people to be all they can be. — Martyn Ford
In Britain, we don’t appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you. — Stephen Hendry
For me, the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn’t choose my media life. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. — Jensen Huang
Sports Team Quotes
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry
If youre not failing once in a while, it probably means youre not stretching yourself.
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix
Sporting Events Quotes
I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event. — Wright Thompson
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful. — Jahangir Khan
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. — George Vecsey
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. — Fran Drescher
Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. — Richard Attias
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport. — Serge Schmemann
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. — Oscar Wilde
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. — Sandy Lyle
You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting. — Jeff Foxworthy
Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life. — Daniel Levitin
Competitive Sports Quotes
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. — Paul Tournier
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness. — Mia Hamm
I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated — Emmitt Smith
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up. — Sayings
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. — Naval Ravikant
I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him — Hansie Cronje
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves. — Al Oerter
We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general. — Jeremy Roenick
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead — Roger Bannister
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. — Dave Barry
I can be a voice. I can use my platform to help the younger generation. I think it's really important for them to understand how to do things the right way, and not just in sports, in life in general. — Allyson Felix
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. — Roger Bannister
The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm a big sports fan in general. — Luke Bryan
I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need. — Peter Steele
I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too. — Valentino Rossi
It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general. — Tony Romo
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played. — Daley Thompson
It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age. — Lindsey Vonn
I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win. — Snoop Dogg
I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general. — Tony Romo
Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion. — Rafael Nadal
Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly. — Chuck Daly
I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports. — Enrique Iglesias
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well. — Roger Clemens
You can't put a limit anything. — Michael Phelps
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it. — Bernie Mac
I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general. — Steve Blake
I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport. — Usain Bolt
I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them. — Jill Douglas
In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their desires and their sentiments. “We must all work for a sporting culture that respects the individual in every manifestation of his truth and freedom. — Cesare Prandelli
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. — Roland Emmerich
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. — Warren Farrell
Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it. — Rush Limbaugh
I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself. — John C. Reilly
I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the country itself, its institutions, leaders are represented by healthy, capable people who are ready for cooperation with our partners in every single area: sports, politics, fight against modern threats. I have nothing but a positive feeling about it. — Vladimir Putin
I think once an athlete always an athlete and once you have a competitive nature about you, in general, it's hard to let go. Whether you're going to take it into medicine or take it into sport, the competitive drive never really leaves. — Kristin Armstrong
I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have. — Wladimir Klitschko
I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time. — Mitch Albom
What sparked my interest in the combat sports in general was my older brother. I guess older brothers are supposed to pick on their young brothers, but mine took it to a whole new level. He broke my collarbone, broke my rib, and knocked my teeth out. — Jake Hecht
I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general. — Jonathan Horton
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general. — Viswanathan Anand
I think money in general hurts all sports. — Will McDonough
First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general. — Berti Vogts
I think people in general that don't surf, have a fascination with it. Its definitely much more than a sport or activity, its a way of life. There is a culture that surrounds it and I think people are intrigued by that. — Tristan Prettyman
The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment. — Willi Smith
I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background. — Beth Brooke
Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general. — Jennie Finch
There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family... — Kristopher Belman
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